REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE)

REU 网站：暑期本科生工程研究 (SURE)

• 批准号: 1263049
• 负责人: Ayanna Howard
• 金额: $ 44.43万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263049&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Undergraduate; Research

Robotics, as a discipline, is inherently interdisciplinary, combining all aspects of engineering necessary for designing and deploying integrated systems and solutions. As students are exposed to robotics, they begin to see connections among these disciplines and begin to understand how their in-class book knowledge translates into real-world systems that can assist society in positive ways. The push of robotics, as it moves from traditional industrial settings, into public spaces and homes across the world opens up extensive new research opportunities in important economic areas such as healthcare, education, and entertainment. This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) award, funded with co-support from the Division of Engineering Education and Centers, will support the involvement of undergraduate students in an immersive 10-weeks robotics research experience, and as a direct consequence, interest them in opportunities available through graduate study. The program will recruit participants locally and nationwide from institutions that provide no or limited research opportunities. Since we expect this theme to be highly advantageous for recruiting, retaining, and motivating students who are currently underrepresented in engineering disciplines, particular emphasis will be placed on recruitment of minority and female students. Participating students, who are paired with both a faculty advisor and a graduate student mentor, will undertake meaningful robotics research projects, visit local industrial labs, attend weekly seminars on emerging research in the robotics field, and participate in weekly academic enrichment and skill development workshops. Students will conclude the program with research presentations to their peers, faculty, and graduate student mentors. Through this immersive research experience, robotics REU students will share in meeting the challenges of this promising new robotics domain and fully reap the rewards of being trained in this interdisciplinary field."The site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program."

机器人学作为一门学科，本质上是跨学科的，它结合了设计和部署集成系统和解决方案所需的所有工程学方面。随着学生接触到机器人技术，他们开始看到这些学科之间的联系，并开始理解他们在课堂上学到的知识是如何转化为能够以积极方式帮助社会的现实世界系统的。随着机器人技术从传统工业环境进入世界各地的公共场所和家庭，机器人技术在医疗、教育和娱乐等重要经济领域开辟了广泛的新研究机会。本科生研究体验奖(REU)由工程教育和中心分部共同资助，将支持本科生参与为期10周的身临其境的机器人研究体验，并作为直接结果，使他们对研究生学习中提供的机会感兴趣。该计划将从没有提供研究机会或提供有限研究机会的机构中招募本地和全国的参与者。由于我们预计这一主题将对招收、留住和激励目前在工程学科中代表性不足的学生非常有利，因此将特别强调招收少数族裔和女性学生。参与的学生将与一名教师导师和一名研究生导师配对，他们将进行有意义的机器人研究项目，参观当地的工业实验室，参加每周一次的关于机器人领域新兴研究的研讨会，并参加每周一次的学术充实和技能发展研讨会。学生们将以向他们的同龄人、教师和研究生导师进行研究报告来结束这个项目。通过这种身临其境的研究体验，机器人REU的学生将分享迎接这个前景光明的新机器人领域的挑战，并完全收获在这个跨学科领域接受培训的回报。